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Matthew 7:6

Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine; lest they trample them under their feet, and turn upon you and rend you.

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In The King James Version

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

In Context

5Hypocrite! first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then wilt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's eye.

7Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, So is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

Proverbs 26:11As a dog returneth to that which he hath vomited, So a fool repeateth his folly.

Matthew 15:26But he answering said, It is not allowable to take the children's bread, and throw it to the little dogs.

Matthew 24:10And then will many fall away; and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26by journeyings often; by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren;

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord will reward him according to his works;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:2-7

The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly… Read the whole commentary →

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